Robert Boulanger

Robert Boulanger was a general of the Second French Empire. Boulanger was known for being a steadfast commander, and he was the man in charge of the French victory in the French War of Yucatan.

Biography
Robert Boulanger was born in Nancy, France to a noble family. Boulanger was appointed as the commander of the French 1st Army, an army of 64,000 French troops from the east of the country, consisting of French, South German, and Martinican troops. In 1861 he was dispatched with Henri Dubail's French 7th Fleet to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, where he landed his army at the start of the French War of Yucatan. He defeated the Mexican armies in a series of battles in the peninsula, before he advanced inland to Veracruz and Morelos, where he again battered Mexican forces sent to oppose him.